Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Corporate Execution

Under
United States Federal Law, a Corporation is regarded as a Person,

AND
WHEREAS:

Under
United States Federal Law, Persons found guilty of committing certain heinous
crimes may incur the penalty of death,

THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED:

That
under United States Federal Law, Corporations found guilty of committing
certain heinous crimes may incur the penalty of death.

Definition
of Corporate Execution

In
Corporate Execution, the officers of the state force a Corporation to stop
functioning. No human Person is to be harmed in any way, except in being
deprived of a functioning relationship with the legally-deceased Corporation.

In a
Corporate Execution, the State shall:

Repudiate
the condemned Corporation’s franchise,

Deny
it all standing in any court of Law,

Seize
its assets, records and property.

Halt
its commercial activities,

Close
its production facilities,

Dismiss
its employees and managers,

Destroy, in public
ceremony, a copy of the condemned Corporation’s identifying logo or symbol,

And declare the
Corporation Legally Dead.

First
Dibs

Corporate
Execution is targeted at the criminal Corporation, not at those amongst its
human servitors who are innocent of its crimes. Nonetheless, loss of corporate
economic support can cause human hardship. To soften the blow, be it resolved
that the first claimants to an executed Corporation’s assets shall be its
innocent human servitors; each of whom shall receive one year’s worth of the
Corporation’s median salary; or if that be impossible within the limits of the
assets seized, all shall receive equal shares.

Just
Cause

Corporations,
being legal Persons, may be put to death for the same high crimes for which
human Persons may be executed. These crimes include:

Arson

Kidnapping

Murder

Genocide

Espionage

and
Treason.

Critique
of this Law

A
Corporate Execution is the fictional death of a fictional Person at the hands
of the State; with violence, pretense and power thus woven into the very fabric
of this instrument, it is clear that great evils may result from its misuse.
Beware!

The
fundamental flaw of this law is that it may be applied to the wrong
Corporations. In this imperfect world, such errors can and do often happen; and
the death penalty, by nature, cannot be rescinded once imposed. Therefore this
law, if accepted, will on occasion mean tragic and irremediable miscarriages of
corporate justice; just like the death penalty for humans.